| From: | Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode string literals versus the world |
| Date: | 2009-04-15 17:57:22 |
| Message-ID: | 4136ffa0904151057h27b6e3a2jc1c124d5f5b43098@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Wouldn't we just then say that U&'' strings are always standard-
>>> conforming?
>>
>> That's exactly what's causing the problem --- they are, but there
>> is lots of software that won't know it.
>
>
> We could say U&'' escapes only work if you have
> standards_conforming_strings set to true.
Or say that if you have standards_conforming_strings false then any
string which contains a literal \ or ' is an error. You shouldn't ever
really need either since you could use the unicode escape for either
after all.
--
greg
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